Q.1
Which of these world-famous opera houses is the oddest one out?
  • La Scala, Milan
  • Sydney Opera House
  • Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
  • Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Q.2
Which are the correct statistics for Wagner's cycle?
  • It contains three operas with a total running time of approximately 12 hours
  • ... four operas over about 15 hours in total
  • ... five operas totalling about 18 hours
  • ... six operas totalling about 20 hours
Q.3
Which term among these is the odd one out?
  • Aria
  • Recitative
  • Libretto
  • Chorus
Q.4
The operatic tradition had already begun where, and by when?
  • By 1600, in Italy (so it was already happening concurrently with our Shakespeare's plays, for instance)
  • By 1700, in Germany
  • By 1789, in France (with plentiful reports of aristocrats attending it prior to the Revolution)
  • By 1820, in Central Europe, in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars
Q.5
Another 'odd one out' selection ... odder than some, we might fairly say!
  • Farinelli
  • Pavarotti
  • Senesino
  • Moreschi
Q.6
The first 150-odd years of opera were dominated, largely, by increasing Baroque sophistication in their music and staging (within what was then technically possible) and it is now around 250 years since a drive began to make the inherently complex medium stylistically leaner, more elegant without a lot of padding and swagger. The opera (with its famous ballet usually known as ) was the work of which composer?
  • Christoph Willibald von Gluck
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Franz Josef Haydn
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully
Q.7
Who was the French composer that updated the Orpheus legend in 1858 (the same year as Moreschi was born), but in a far more buffoon-and-burlesque manner, including the famous 'Infernal Galop' known to most people as the Can-Can?
  • Leo Delibes
  • Camille Saint-Saens
  • Jacques Offenbach
  • Jules Massenet
Q.8
Another 'odd-one-out' ... or in this case, 'odd more-or-less-than-one' out, since three of these composers only completed one opera each. Who finished MORE or FEWER than one?
  • Beethoven
  • Debussy
  • Brahms
  • Gershwin
Q.9
is also known in French and Italian, but its music is by a 20th-century Russian composer: who?
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Sergei Rachmaninov
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Aram Khachaturian
Q.10
Which of these is the correct trio for the Three Tenors?
  • Domingo, Chaliapin, Pavarotti
  • Carreras, Pavarotti, Domingo
  • Pavarotti, Carreras, Caruso
  • Pavarotti, Domingo, Gigli
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